United States House of Representatives elections in Washington, 2012
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All 10 Washington seats to the United States House of Representatives |
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0.22%The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington were held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, to elect the ten U.S. Representatives from the state, one from each of the state's ten congressional districts, a gain of one seat following the 2010 United States Census. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a quadrennial presidential election, and a U.S. Senate election. The state certified the returns on December 6, 2012.Primary elections were held on August 7, 2012.
Democrat Jay Inslee, who represented the 1st district starting in 1999, resigned March 20, 2012, to focus on his run for Governor of Washington. Republican John Koster and Democrat Suzan DelBene received the most votes in the nonpartisan blanket primary on August 7 for both the brief period of office remaining in the old 1st district and the redistricted 1st district, and faced each other in two separate ballot positions, with different boundaries, in the special election on November 6. DelBene won both races and was sworn in to serve the remainder of Inslee's term on November 13, 2012.
Running as Democrats in the primary were Darcy Burner, a former manager at Microsoft and unsuccessful candidate for the 8th district in 2006 and 2008; DelBene, a former director at the Washington State Department of Revenue, who unsuccessfully ran in the 8th district in 2010;state Senator Steve Hobbs; Darshan Rauniyar, a businessman and political activist; and former state Representative Laura Ruderman,.
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